It included recipes, a love story and I couldn't really figure out why these stories went together. When I read the first pages of the book I was very confused. Written Reflection Like Water For Chocolate But with their love presented as right and inescapable, it’s just unintentionally heartbreaking. It makes sense that attention-starved Tita could fall for someone who showed her intermittent rather than total neglect, and if the book had seemed to understand how awful their dynamic was, it could’ve been a heartbreaking tragedy. After a day of escalating refusals to take no for an answer, he rapes the woman he claims to love. Pedro doesn’t grow a spine when Tita’s mother forbids their marriage or separates him from her: he waits til Tita has found a man who would at least treat her well. His sole kind gesture, bringing Tita a bouquet of roses, is a splashy move guaranteed to draw her family’s anger down on her. Once he’s part of the household, he makes no clear attempts to stop or lessen the abuse towards the woman he supposedly cares for. Pedro willingly marries Tita’s sister Rosaura to get closer to her, with no regard for Rosaura’s feelings or future. The magical realism is skillful and emotional, but the romance at the center of the book is horrifying.
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